I was hoping someone on this board could help me with slipstreaming Intel's latest Matrix Storage driver into an unattended XP install CD. I am looking to slipstream the files as TEXTMODE drivers, which should make the task easier. Unfortunately, all efforts to do this so far have resulted in failure.

First, before I tried anything, I slipstreamed SP3 into XP, copied my WINNT.SIF file to the I386 directory of the CD, and created a bootable XP unattended install disk that works like a charm. So I know the basic disk works.

Second, I modified this base XP install CD as such:

-At the root of the CD I created a directory called $OEM$ and then created a folder within that called TEXTMODE. Inside this $OEM$\TEXTMODE folder I copied the files from Intel's latest F6 floppy (f6flpy3286.zip): TXTSETUP.OEM iaahci.cat iaAHCI.inf iastor.cat iaStor.inf IaStor.sys

-In the I386 directory of the CD, I created a folder called $OEM$ and once again, copied the contents of Intel's latest F6 floppy (f6flpy3286.zip).

Note: So I now have two directories that hold the contents of Intel's latest F6 floppy: $OEM$\TEXTMODE and I386\$OEM$

-Then I modified the WINNT.SIF by changing the line OEMPreinstall=NO to OEMPreinstall=YES

-Finally, I added the [MassStorageDrivers]* and [OEMBootFiles] sections to the WINNT.SIF as below:

Been chasing my tail on this problem as well. What I've found is that it seems you can only inject the SATA drivers from a distribution folder using the method you describe. Apparently there are differences in the way winnt(32).exe treats unnattend.txt/winnt.sif depending on where you deploy from. Unfortunately, I can't recall the reference. I have gotten it to work from a distribution folder but never from a cd/dvd.

Booya! Nailed it. My settings in Windows were correct, but my settings in Nero Burning ROM were off. After a tip-off from a user in the MSFN forums and a little experimentation, I figured out that I had to set Nero to burn in the ISO 9660+Joliet "File System" and the ASCII "Character set (ISO)" on Nero's "ISO" tab. Otherwise, either the dollar signs in the $OEM$ directory name were changed to underscores, the spaces in file/directory names were changed to underscores, or the Joliet file system was omitted completely. It works now and works well. And it wasn't Microsoft's fault...imagine that.

Make sure to add the "IDE CD-ROM (ATAPI 1.2)/PCI IDE Controller" = "RETAIL" line to the [MassStorageDrivers] section in your WINNT.SIF or else the Windows install won't find the hard drive after reboot.

I've got serious issues with integrating Intel SATA drivers in an unattended WDSA install. My problem is, we now have computers using different versions of Intel Matrix Storage drivers. Integrating one set is fine, but so far I've been unable to integrate both versions into the *.sif and txtsetup.oem.

One of the main problems here is, that the filenames (of the 2 different driver sets) are EXACTLY the same!

I'm not sure as I personally would simply burn a separate disk for each Matrix/southbridge version. You'll have to do this in the future as new intel south bridges come out unless Intel decides to create a universal driver for all past and future Intel SATA southbridges.

Since that didn't answer your question, and I admit I don't know the answer, I'll point you to the MSFN forums here: